Police and the Beaver County district attorney have announced charges against two people in connection with the 2008 deaths of a married couple in Beaver Falls.

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Richard and Demetria Harper were each shot once in the head at their home on Second Avenue on June 30, 2008.

The suspects are identified as Robert Burgess and Devon Shealey, who are already serving time in prisons outside the area and will be brought back to Beaver County to face charges.

"We are in the business of justice. Really, this is the first step in securing justice on behalf of the victims and their family," said Beaver Falls Police Chief Charles Jones.

Police have said that masked men entered the Harper home and shot the 32-year-old victims while their two young daughters were in the house. The kids were found locked in a closet, unharmed.

“Anybody that looked in the eyes of those two children, under the age of 10, knew that we would not rest until we had an answer,” said Beaver County District Attorney Anthony Berosh.

As police tried to track down leads, the lengthy investigation took them to the city of Pittsburgh and as far away as El Paso, Texas, where the Harpers once lived.

The criminal complaint indicated the deaths were over drugs and money.

"I can't imagine those kids and what they heard or saw or anything like that. It just breaks my heart that those children had to go through that," said neighbor Shenandoah Parsons.

"Having to see the reaction of the family members and then them having to tell the children, that takes a lot out of anybody. You don't want to lose one person, but then you lose two, that's your whole entire family," said neighbor Amy Martino.

Richard Harper worked as a care provider for handicapped people in their homes and was an assistant coach for the Beaver Falls Little Tigers youth sports program.

"He was a well-spoke-of guy," family friend Tony Walker told Channel 4 Action News in 2008. "Everybody knew him. He got along with everybody, didn't bother anybody, went to work, took care of his kids."